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August 12, 2014 10:54 PM

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"I am out here because I am part of the masses of people in St. Louis and soon to be in the nation that is exhausted and fatigued with the progression of police genocide. It's not police brutality anymore. It's genocide against young black Americans," said Sunny Ford during a rally on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Clayton, Mo., protesting the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT) less

"I am out here because I am part of the masses of people in St. Louis and soon to be in the nation that is exhausted and fatigued with the progression of police genocide. It's not police brutality anymore. It's ... more

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A police sharp shooter keeps an eye on protesters along W. Florissant Avenue on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 near the QuikTrip that was burned down a few days earlier in Ferguson. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) less

A police sharp shooter keeps an eye on protesters along W. Florissant Avenue on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 near the QuikTrip that was burned down a few days earlier in Ferguson. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ... more

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather for food at the Nowruz camp, in Derike, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. In the camps here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled militants to carve an escape route to tens of thousands trapped on a mountaintop. While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries dropped food and water to the starving members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, the Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them, a sign of how Syria's Kurds, like Iraq's, are using the region's conflicts to establish their own rule. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) less

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather for food at the Nowruz camp, in Derike, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. In the camps here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled ... more

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Joey Ramirez, left, and Taran Stone with SolarCity install solar modules on the roof of a Long Beach, Calif., home. Florida "has a ton of sunshine, a ton of rooftops," a SolarCity spokesman said. "But there is no rooftop solar industry in Florida." (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/MCT) less

Joey Ramirez, left, and Taran Stone with SolarCity install solar modules on the roof of a Long Beach, Calif., home. Florida "has a ton of sunshine, a ton of rooftops," a SolarCity spokesman said. "But there is ... more

TARIFA, SPAIN - AUGUST 12: African migrant gestures inside a Red Cross vehicle after being rescued by a Spanish coast guard vessel in the port of Tarifa on August 12, 2014 in Tarifa, Spain. Spain's coast guard said it picked up 710 sub-Saharan Africans who were crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in 12 small boats, part of a surge of migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe's southern shores. (Photo by Sergio Camacho/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX *** less

TARIFA, SPAIN - AUGUST 12: African migrant gestures inside a Red Cross vehicle after being rescued by a Spanish coast guard vessel in the port of Tarifa on August 12, 2014 in Tarifa, Spain. Spain's coast guard ... more

The 2014 Iowa State Fair Queen Elizabeth Glover, of Clay County, watches the outhouse race near the porcelain throne she was tasked with coating in chocolate sauce during the event at the Iowa State Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Charlie Litchfield) MAGS OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT less

The 2014 Iowa State Fair Queen Elizabeth Glover, of Clay County, watches the outhouse race near the porcelain throne she was tasked with coating in chocolate sauce during the event at the Iowa State Fair on ... more

Eleven-year-old James Gooding, from Stevensville, Mich., competes in the frozen T-shirt contest, sponsored by The Herald-Palladium, Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at the Berrien County Youth Fair in Berrien Springs, Mich. Contestants raced to thaw out and put on completely frozen t-shirts.(AP Photo/The Herald-Palladium, Don Campbell) less

Eleven-year-old James Gooding, from Stevensville, Mich., competes in the frozen T-shirt contest, sponsored by The Herald-Palladium, Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at the Berrien County Youth Fair in Berrien Springs, ... more

PROBOLINGGO, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA - AUGUST 12: A Tenggerese worshipper carries vegetables for an offerings during the Yadnya Kasada Festival at crater of Mount Bromo on August 12, 2014 in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia. The festival is the main festival of the Tenggerese people and lasts about a month. On the fourteenth day, the Tenggerese make the journey to Mount Bromo to make offerings of rice, fruits, vegetables, flowers and livestock to the mountain gods by throwing them into the volcano's caldera. The origin of the festival lies in the 15th century when a princess named Roro Anteng started the principality of Tengger with her husband Joko Seger, and the childless couple asked the mountain Gods for help in bearing children. The legend says the Gods granted them 24 children but on the provision that the 25th must be tossed into the volcano in sacrifice. The 25th child, Kesuma, was finally sacrificed in this way after initial refusal, and the tradition of throwing sacrifices into the caldera to appease the mountain Gods continues today. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX *** less

PROBOLINGGO, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA - AUGUST 12: A Tenggerese worshipper carries vegetables for an offerings during the Yadnya Kasada Festival at crater of Mount Bromo on August 12, 2014 in Probolinggo, East ... more

A group of Myanmar rice-field workers cover themselves in plastic sheets as monsoon rain pour down in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Monday, Aug 11, 2014. Farmers grow rice with the help of the monsoon rain, which starts late May and ends in mid-October. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) less

A group of Myanmar rice-field workers cover themselves in plastic sheets as monsoon rain pour down in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Monday, Aug 11, 2014. Farmers grow rice with the help of the monsoon rain, which starts ... more

Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe, Associated Press

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Lowry Park Zoo elephants Matjeka, 23, and her 1-year-old daughter, Mavi, apply a liberal coating of "sunscreen" to themselves in a clay mud wallow at the park Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Tampa, Fla., on the park's first observation of World Elephant Day to raise awareness of the wild African elephant crisis. "Elephants are prone to being sunburned," said associate curator Chris Massaro."What they need is lot of mud or clay to roll around in and cover up their skin so it will protect it from the sun." (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Cherie Diez) less

Lowry Park Zoo elephants Matjeka, 23, and her 1-year-old daughter, Mavi, apply a liberal coating of "sunscreen" to themselves in a clay mud wallow at the park Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Tampa, Fla., on the ... more

ROYAL OAK, MI - AUGUST 12 : Vehicles sit submerged in water along I-75 August 12, 2014 in Royal Oak, Michigan. Severe rain from yesterday's storm flooded local streets, highways, and homes in the Detroit Metropolitan area experiencing the worst flash flooding in decades. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images) less

ROYAL OAK, MI - AUGUST 12 : Vehicles sit submerged in water along I-75 August 12, 2014 in Royal Oak, Michigan. Severe rain from yesterday's storm flooded local streets, highways, and homes in the Detroit ... more

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A fisherman gets ready to cast his line near the body of a dead humpback whale washed ashore on Macumba beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 11, 2014. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBAYASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images less

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A fisherman gets ready to cast his line near the body of a dead humpback whale washed ashore on Macumba beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 11, 2014. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBAYASUYOSHI ... more

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Tengger tribes people place vegetables as offerings at Mount Bromo during the annual Kasada ceremony in East Java on August 12, 2014. The Kasada ceremony is a festival held every 14th day of the Kasada month in the traditional Hindu lunar calender to honour Sang Hyang Widhi (God Almighty) and is based on the legend of Roro Anteng and Joko Seger from the Majapahit Kingdom, from which their Tengger tribe name originates. Hundreds of worshippers from the Tengger tribe offer food and livestock as a symbolic sacrifice which they throw into the crater for the blessings of safety and prosperity to their familyies and community. AFP PHOTO / JUNI KRISWANTOJUNI KRISWANTO/AFP/Getty Images less

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Tengger tribes people place vegetables as offerings at Mount Bromo during the annual Kasada ceremony in East Java on August 12, 2014. The Kasada ceremony is a festival held every 14th day of the ... more